Open thread: Sunday morning talking heads

posted at 8:01 am on April 20, 2014 by Allahpundit

War, faith, and rights are on the menu for Sunday-show brunch this Easter morning. On “Meet the Press,” it’s all about Ukraine: Prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will be on to discuss the prospects of war in the east and, maybe, to update the world on who’s really responsible for those “Jews must register” flyers in Donetsk. If you’d prefer something truer to the spirit of the day, Cardinals Dolan and Wuerl will have the spotlights on “Face the Nation” and “Fox News Sunday,” respectively.

And if you’re in the mood for red meat, former Justice John Paul Stevens will sit down with “This Week” to discuss his new book, which modestly recommends “fixing” the Second Amendment to limit gun rights to organized militias. The full line-up is at Politico.

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Scary monent. Winston knocked my bottle of neurontin off the table. I picked all of them up but I didn’t get all of them I guess because I saw him playing with something. He had a pill stuck to his lip. I’ve had trouble with them sticking to the roof of my mouth. That’s what kept him from swallowing it.

Do you have any idea of an estimate for total Obamacare costs? Not just taxpayer/government spending, but government plus consumer spending totals since it’s no longer a choice to spend that $500 dollars a month on premiums?

Extra points if you know anything about costs of implementation and time spent by private business incorporating, managing, updating, and maintaining their individual systems annually. I doubt those numbers are out there but that’s part of the total cost as well, especially since a law requires it to exist.

I’ve never seen any of these numbers, but I’m guessing Obamacare will cost Americans at least $15T+/decade.

Weird lineup today – a Prime Minister, three foreign ambassadors to the U.S., two Cardinals (Easter), two former elected Republicans, the usual phalanx of the kook left and their clownish race victim tokens, but also two communications directors (DNC and GOP). Just odd.

“State of the Union” on CNN
• John Walsh – (Remember when the drunk in Montana resigned early, so they could appoint another Dem and hopefully give him a re-election advantage? Yeah, that’s this guy. Another western liberal who pretends to be a conservative. Montana falls for this schtick every time.) Liberal
• Mo Elleithee – No, seriously … that’s his name. Just another DNC tool.
• Sean Spicer – Unknown establishment GOPer
• Lukman Faily, Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. – NA
• Kim Beazley, Australian ambassador to the U.S. – NA

Scary monent. Winston knocked my bottle of neurontin off the table. I picked all of them up but I didn’t get all of them I guess because I saw him playing with something. He had a pill stuck to his lip. I’ve had trouble with them sticking to the roof of my mouth. That’s what kept him from swallowing it.

crankyoldlady on April 20, 2014 at 8:27 AM

what is his weight and the pill dosage?
I had to give one of mine neurontin for a bit plus I myself use it daily.
if th epill is around 100mg he may get sleepy but neurontin is safe for cats at lower doasge. my 800mg tablets cannot be used but we had our 9lb cat on 150mg twice a day for a bit.

There are so many supposed learned people wanting to fix or change or do away with the constitution these days. Don’t they see that the rule of law we have gone by since our founding has been ignored by our dear leader whenever it suits his pursuit of the dream of a utopia society? The job of fixing has already has a little red book so we don’t need this one.

“Do you deny that you are a man who wants to redistribute wealth?” O’Reilly asked.

Obama first noted the conservatism of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, then denied the charge “absolutely.”

“I didn’t raise taxes once. I lowered taxes over the last two years,” Obama said.

But we’ve documented numerous instances when he has. He’s has signed off on small tax cuts for most taxpayers, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s also approved several tax increases. So we rate his statement False.

I always wanted one of these for Christmas. The ultimate in video games…for the time. It was pretty primitive when I was a kid. We actually had to physically change the channels on the TV. Didn’t do it a lot though since we only got 2 1/2 channels. NBC Ch4 out of Nashville only came in clear occasionally.

Yes, it amazes me that spending $100+ on a child’s Easter is becoming fairly common. I remember getting a basket with jelly beans, a chocolate bunny, sometimes some other candy or fruit, and a relatively inexpensive non-edible gift like a book. Probably $20 to $30 total in today’s money (and the same basket and grass were used every year). The best part of Easter as a kid was decorating eggs on Saturday and doing a hunt on Sunday. That experience was worth more than any expensive toy.

And if you’re in the mood for red meat, former Justice John Paul Stevens will sit down with “This Week” to discuss his new book, which modestly recommends “fixing” the Second Amendment to limit gun rights to organized militias.

Do you have any idea of an estimate for total Obamacare costs? Not just taxpayer/government spending, but government plus consumer spending totals since it’s no longer a choice to spend that $500 dollars a month on premiums?

Extra points if you know anything about costs of implementation and time spent by private business incorporating, managing, updating, and maintaining their individual systems annually. I doubt those numbers are out there but that’s part of the total cost as well, especially since a law requires it to exist.

I’ve never seen any of these numbers, but I’m guessing Obamacare will cost Americans at least $15T+/decade.

Any insight?

rogerb on April 20, 2014 at 8:45 AM
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May not be that expensive since none of the doctors will take zerocare. Could cost a lot less since once victims of zero care insurance discover there are no doctors available and the deductibles are so high it may be far more worthwhile for most to just pay the fines. Biggest costs will be premium support moochers and Medicaid fraud.

Scary monent. Winston knocked my bottle of neurontin off the table. I picked all of them up but I didn’t get all of them I guess because I saw him playing with something. He had a pill stuck to his lip. I’ve had trouble with them sticking to the roof of my mouth. That’s what kept him from swallowing it.

crankyoldlady on April 20, 2014 at 8:27 AM

I take a few small pills twice daily, and once I dropped one and couldn’t find it. I thought my little 6# chihuahua was safely in the next room at the time, but I couldn’t be sure. I searched everywhere, and was terrified. Finally, I found it near where she had been, damp but intact. She must have spit it out, Thank God.

Scary monent. Winston knocked my bottle of neurontin off the table. I picked all of them up but I didn’t get all of them I guess because I saw him playing with something. He had a pill stuck to his lip. I’ve had trouble with them sticking to the roof of my mouth. That’s what kept him from swallowing it.

crankyoldlady on April 20, 2014 at 8:27 AM

what is his weight and the pill dosage?
I had to give one of mine neurontin for a bit plus I myself use it daily.
if th epill is around 100mg he may get sleepy but neurontin is safe for cats at lower doasge. my 800mg tablets cannot be used but we had our 9lb cat on 150mg twice a day for a bit.

dmacleo on April 20, 2014 at 9:23 AM

oops I didn’t se that he actually DIDN’T swallow it.
however would like to know his weight and the dose as I could tell you if safe or not.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Medicaid program paid an estimated $12 million for medical services for people listed as deceased in other state records, according to an internal state government memo.

The memo dated Friday, which The Associated Press obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, says the state auditor compared clients enrolled in the Medicaid database last June with state death records dating back to 1970. Auditors identified overpayments for services to roughly 2,900 people after the date of their deaths.

The heads of the departments of Healthcare and Family Services and Human Services, the two state agencies involved with Medicaid payments, outline steps to fix the problem in the memo to their senior staffs.

The memo states that more than $7 million has been recovered and the rest is expected to be recouped by year’s end.

Sen. Dale Righter, a Republican from Mattoon and the Senate GOP’s point person on Medicaid reform, said the finding was further evidence that Democrats’ arguments that they have done all they can to clean up the Medicaid rolls is “empty rhetoric.”

One of the nice things about those greedy corporations is that they devote a fair amount of resources to fraud detection and prevention. Feel free to criticize AMEX, but about a month ago, I was at my PC at 11 pm, and AMEX sent me a fraud alert. My number had been used for a $70 purchase from some knick-knack outfit in Oshkosh, WI. The vendor was not in the profile AMEX has on me, so AMEX declined the charge. I called and confirmed I made no such charge, and AMEX cancelled the card and had a new card in my hands within days.

The point is that I simply can’t get over the amount of longstanding fraud that the feds sometime uncover.

Beyond the Medicaid fraud, this country needs to attack disability fraud. It’s just a permanent form of unemployment insurance for people who turn around and supplement their income in the underground economy.

Do you have any idea of an estimate for total Obamacare costs? Not just taxpayer/government spending, but government plus consumer spending totals since it’s no longer a choice to spend that $500 dollars a month on premiums?

Extra points if you know anything about costs of implementation and time spent by private business incorporating, managing, updating, and maintaining their individual systems annually. I doubt those numbers are out there but that’s part of the total cost as well, especially since a law requires it to exist.

I’ve never seen any of these numbers, but I’m guessing Obamacare will cost Americans at least $15T+/decade.

Any insight?

rogerb on April 20, 2014 at 8:45 AM

May not be that expensive since none of the doctors will take zerocare. Could cost a lot less since once victims of zero care insurance discover there are no doctors available and the deductibles are so high it may be far more worthwhile for most to just pay the fines. Biggest costs will be premium support moochers and Medicaid fraud.

“While open enrollment for coverage under the Affordable Care Act is closed, many of the newly insured are finding they can’t find doctors, landing them into a state described as ‘medical homelessness.’”

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Medicaid program paid an estimated $12 million for medical services for people listed as deceased in other state records, according to an internal state government memo.

The memo dated Friday, which The Associated Press obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, says the state auditor compared clients enrolled in the Medicaid database last June with state death records dating back to 1970. Auditors identified overpayments for services to roughly 2,900 people after the date of their deaths.

The heads of the departments of Healthcare and Family Services and Human Services, the two state agencies involved with Medicaid payments, outline steps to fix the problem in the memo to their senior staffs.

The memo states that more than $7 million has been recovered and the rest is expected to be recouped by year’s end.

Sen. Dale Righter, a Republican from Mattoon and the Senate GOP’s point person on Medicaid reform, said the finding was further evidence that Democrats’ arguments that they have done all they can to clean up the Medicaid rolls is “empty rhetoric.”

CW on April 20, 2014 at 10:35 AM

It takes a LOT of healthcare to get dead people out of their graves in order to vote on election day.

Seems to me that Justice Stevens has conceded the point that, as written, the 2nd amendment in fact DOES protect the individual right to keep and bear arms. This should finally lay to rest the anti-constitutional-left’s predilection, for confusing the prefatory clause with the operative clause, once and for all.

Thanks for telling me that in case he actually ever does get one. I really didn’t think it would kill him or anything. It’s only 100. 800 gee. Hope I won’t have to take that much.

crankyoldlady on April 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM

yeah 100 is safe if hes 6lb or more.
what would happen is he would have about 30 minutes of a coordination issue usually with leg placement but he would adapt soon.
he would also get SUPER friendly, I mean super friendly and then he would sleep a lot.
it would wear off pretty fast.

I use neur*ntin 800 and lyr*ca, s*ma, r*baxin, l*rcet, ultr*m due to multiple injuries. so I have to make sure my kittens (no matter how old they are they are still kittens) never get into them.

I didn’t think anything about it. I just spelled it out and then when I saw somebody else’s post I thought is that a brand name or a generic name. Fortunately that’s all I take besides vitamins. I don’t want to be my mother who took 9 different things. If 100 3 times a day isn’t helping I’m giving it up.

Steven’s objection to the Second Amendment, is political rather than legal. He just doesn’t like the fact that Americans have the right to keep and bear arms. Since SCOTUS, has recently declared that the Second Amendment confers an individual right, irrespective of any service in a militia, he now sees the need to rewrite the 2nd to remove those righs from American citizens. We all know that a disarmed citizenry faced with a massively armed government, ultimately leads to governments shooting their own citizens. History is full of examples of such incidents.